Of course, his detector found this thing and it was 2 feet underground. Anyone that is motivated enough to dig 2 feet for the 99.999% chance of finding a car rim has probably been doing this for quite a while.

Deep Contact:Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

BigLuca:Deep Contact: Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

It's possible for a material to be both rarer and cheaper than gold if the demand is low. That, plus the fact that gold's value is driven not only by its market value, but also factors like psychology and speculation, pretty well accounts for the disparity.

Cybernetic:BigLuca: Deep Contact: Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

It's possible for a material to be both rarer and cheaper than gold if the demand is low. That, plus the fact that gold's value is driven not only by its market value, but also factors like psychology and speculation, pretty well accounts for the disparity.

Yep, that is always my point to them. But that doesn't phase the gold fanatic crowd.

Those are great comics, when my son was in 3rd grade we could not get him to read anything, he didn't play video games or anything - he just hated reading. I found some Uncle Scrooge comics at a garage sale and bought them for him. He read them over and over! I then went on a quest to find Disney comics until he had a pretty substantial collection, not really worth anything since they were not in the best of shape but they got him reading! My wife was concerned about him reading comics and talked to his teacher who said "Hey! As long as he is reading who cares!"

By the end of the school year he had caught up to his peers in reading comprehension and by the end of 4th grade he was reading on a high school level and had graduated to 'Silver Age' superheros.

BigLuca:Deep Contact: Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

I hear ya.

I've argued for platinum, or rare earth metals. I gave up ever discussing that again, as I could not get them to understand intrinsic values blahblahblah. I forget the name- but there's a d&d module I've played, based on books I can't remember the title to, either- but steel is the main currency, because it's the most useful metal. Gold is worth less than copper.I dunno- Weave probably knows it, though.

TheMysticS:BigLuca: Deep Contact: Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

I hear ya.

I've argued for platinum, or rare earth metals. I gave up ever discussing that again, as I could not get them to understand intrinsic values blahblahblah. I forget the name- but there's a d&d module I've played, based on books I can't remember the title to, either- but steel is the main currency, because it's the most useful metal. Gold is worth less than copper.I dunno- Weave probably knows it, though.

Sheeit, we could use printer ink!

You can't base value on usefulness because water is the most useful thing ever (try going a few days without any) and unless you're in a desert that shiat is farking everywhere.

Actually, air is even more "useful". An economy that used air as a medium of trade would be... inconvenient.

Jument:TheMysticS: BigLuca: Deep Contact: Amazing gold is worth so much. It's only real value is in electronics and optics.Probably from ancient times when we mined gold for the aliens and they gave us food morsels or beads.

It is amazing the number of times people, smart people, have told me they back a gold standard because the dollar have value based on people believing it does, but gold has intrinsic value based on it's scarcity.

I then point out the number of materials that are rarer and way cheaper than gold, but ... nope, nothing.

I hear ya.

I've argued for platinum, or rare earth metals. I gave up ever discussing that again, as I could not get them to understand intrinsic values blahblahblah. I forget the name- but there's a d&d module I've played, based on books I can't remember the title to, either- but steel is the main currency, because it's the most useful metal. Gold is worth less than copper.I dunno- Weave probably knows it, though.

Sheeit, we could use printer ink!

You can't base value on usefulness because water is the most useful thing ever (try going a few days without any) and unless you're in a desert that shiat is farking everywhere.

Actually, air is even more "useful". An economy that used air as a medium of trade would be... inconvenient.

Honestly, for the future of mankind, I worry that control of water will be really serious.Possibly clean air, too. Domes. Individual scrubbers. The future is hard to see.Always in motion is the future.

And we're talking about a fantasy world where weapons for war are the most important thing. Not reality.

But I still submit that for today's economy- rare earth metals could back a currency.